by Dan Fuerst | Jun 27, 2024 | Pastor's Thoughts
Sin isn’t given its due these days. Downplaying sin is dangerous. But there is also another spiritual misstep in which we make way too big a deal out of sin. It happens, for example, when we persistently wonder if our confessed sins are “really” forgiven, or...
by Dan Fuerst | Jun 20, 2024 | Pastor's Thoughts
Summer is surely upon us all. I hope everyone is keeping cool. I wanted to bring to everyone’s attention our parish picnic which will be held Sunday, July 28 immediately following the 11:30 am Mass. It will be held in the rectory backyard. There will be a food truck...
by Dan Fuerst | Jun 13, 2024 | Pastor's Thoughts
This weekend we celebrate and honor all of our fathers both living and deceased. Unlike Mother’s Day which was though of in 1908, the proclaimed officially by President Wilson in 1914 just 6 years in the making, Father’s Day took much longer to become an officially...
by Dan Fuerst | Jun 6, 2024 | Pastor's Thoughts
Liturgically we begin what the church calls ‘Ordinary Time.’ It has always puzzled me that a season of the liturgical year would be called “Ordinary Time.” It comes from the Latin “Tempus per annum, or time through the year.” Ordinary time are the numbered Sundays...
by Dan Fuerst | May 30, 2024 | Pastor's Thoughts
The Eucharist is the most central part of the Catholic Church. Christ feeds and sustains His church in the reception of His body, blood, soul, and divinity every time we participate in the Eucharist. In 1263 a German priest, Fr. Peter of Prague, made a pilgrimage to...
by Dan Fuerst | May 23, 2024 | Pastor's Thoughts
This Monday we celebrate ‘MEMORIAL DAY’ a day that was instituted by Major General John A. Logan in 1886. It was about three years since the civil war ended that the head of the Grand Army of the Republic, Gen John Logan established what was called then...